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The gurney of the Capital “Victor Babeş” Hospital, which disconnected a COVID patient from the devices and died, was detained on Friday night, after new hearings in the Homicide Service. He is accused of manslaughter and prosecutors propose his preventive detention.
The orderly entered the ATI room alone, without waiting for his companions, and exceeding his duties, removed the intubation tube from a patient whom he mistook for another who had died.
“On 12.10.2020, at 3:30 p.m., after one of the two patients in a room of the Intensive Care Unit was declared dead, several stretchers were requested to lift the body from the room and deposit it in the morgue , including the defendant, as well as a nurse. The accused put on the protective suit, entered the room without waiting for the others and, confusing the two patients, exceeded his duties and removed the intubation tube from the living patient, who died shortly afterwards. time, despite the resuscitation maneuvers applied by the doctors who had been alerted ”, is shown in a statement from the Public Prosecutor attached to the Bucharest Court.
The patient, hospitalized with Covid-19, was 65 years old and had been in the ATI department of the hospital since November 25.
In a statement sent on Friday, the “Victor Babeș” Hospital speaks of an “unfortunate incident” and announces that an internal investigation has been launched.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
